OUR MISSION

Awarezen exists to to help co-create all things anew. We do this by inviting awareness and compassion, bliss and exuberance to manifest in human consciousness for this planet to become a hospitable home for all, saturated with life, love, and light in luminous hope for the new creation. On this transformative journey, we seek to dissolve deceptions and evoke new consciousness of what is real within and without. We connect to the deepest dimensions of being alive and awake. While innovative and unconventional in both its interpretive and expressive aspects, Awarezen nonetheless affirms the core statements of historic Christian faith as documented in the Apostle and Nicene Creeds.

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Meditation Space

Awarezen is an online meditation space, offering distinctive signature programs free of charge. Individual consultation and mentoring customized to each person is available, for free. We are a community service, not a business. We do not believe in commodification of meditation and spirituality for money. We flow in the economy of gifts not profits. This practice is in accord with the ancient hallowed heritage of dana (generosity) found in South Asian wisdom traditions of Buddhism and Yoga.

Creative Missiology

Awarezen is an expression of "alternative missiological imaginary" (Duerksen 2022) that demonstrates creative "inreligionisation" (Tan 2022) but with a difference: it is not only a place where Dhamma seekers belong to Christ but also a common ground where Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians as well as the non-religious join together in the third space of interspiritual and intercontemplative participation. Everything and everyone belongs in this cosmotheandric reality where God, cosmos, and humanity are a dynamic seamless whole in creative evolution (DeMoor, 2022). Awarezen's inclusive Christocentrism places Jesus Christ the logos at front and center of universal salvation, but includes non-Christian followers of goodwill into the orbit of Christ's salvific potency. Theological precedents in the writings of Pope Pius XII and post-Vatican II documents provide some background to our assertions, with concepts such as Paschali Mysterio Consociati and Universale Salutis Sacramentum (cf. International Theological Commission's Christianity and the World Religions, 1997).

Contemplative Community

Awarezen is also a contemplative community of grace steeped in embodying truth beyond exterior trappings of religion or tradition, enacting awareness and compassion for a culture of awakening and renewal. We transcend divisions and binaries to embody the third space of interspiritual belonging within which multiple ways of belonging are embraced and explored, not feared and excised. We lean towards the notion of an "amipotent" or maximally powerful God of sovereign yet non-manipulative egoless love in light of the ubiquitous problem of evil.

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Cosmotheandric Vision

We are mindful of our deep participation in the "emerging wholeness of God, world, and humanity through the power of love in our scientific age." (Ilia Delio, Center for Christogenesis). We move beyond mainline dogmatic thinking to celebrate a mimetic, open and relational paradigm of creation and humanity deeply ensconced in the fabric of the Divine (Rene Girard and Thomas Jay Oord). This is the paradigm of a cosmotheandric Christ that is processual and integral (Raimon Panikkar).

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Mutual Subversive Fulfilment

We embrace the dialogical space of nondual mutuality between Dhamma and Christ. Nonduality here means that both Dhamma and Christ share in the one taste of lucid emptiness. Mutuality means that Dhamma and Christ are allegorically entwined in an ecstatic dance of mutual self-giving and self-emptying in love (kenosis). Awarezen embodies and enacts the subversive fulfilment of the Dhamma in Christ and Christ in the Dhamma.

This is a dynamic arc of double-movement whereby the (1) totality of wisdom and practice of the Dhamma finds its completion and consummation in the innermost essence of Christ, which is non-abiding emptiness of nirvana; and (2) the fullness of a life of grace and faith in Christ necessarily includes at its heart the unborn, unoriginated, unmade, and undying expanse of non-abiding nirvana. This nirvana is also the known as the quintessential body of truth (svabhavika-dharmakaya) — that is, the innermost and ultimate dimension of a Buddha.

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This mutual subversive fulfilment (for want of a better term) enacts the deep inner dynamics of Awarezen's path of total awakening known as the Great Christic Consummation. Here, we participate in actualizing the Dhamma in the ambience of abiding in Christ beyond words and concepts. While both Dhamma and Christ are empty of inherency, they each have their nominal distinctiveness thus mutually fulfilling, deepening, and enriching each other in the expanse of nondual fecundity.